The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.
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God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
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Oh crap, I've wasted my life
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I think I'm a stand-up comic and I don't really care what people think.
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I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
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A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.
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There have to be some boundaries. The butt of the joke cannot be God or the prophet or the religion itself. I'm very careful about sacrilegious humor. I'm not a shock comic who's going to do something that will inflame Muslims.
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.
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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
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Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show.
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There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
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When I'm done with you, you're gonna wish your daddy pulled out early.
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Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune
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The comic imagination deals in miraculous transformations and instantaneous casting-off of burdens and sufferings. It releases sudden floods o...
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His skills as a comic actor were unrivalled - no-one came or comes close,
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
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Where did they put pictures, comic strips, and coupons before they invented the refrigerator door?
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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share.But whatever happens to you, you still have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analyses, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
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They say Washington DC is filled with beautiful, intelligent young women looking for husbands. Hey, I'm a husband!
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We were so exited to have touched by the finger of God. We just forgot to ask which finger.
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God is playing a comic to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
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